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Apparently because of problems with the equation editor in MS Word
Users of Word 2007 should also be aware that equations created with thedefault equation editor included in Microsoft Word 2007 will be unacceptable in revision, even if the file is converted to a format compatible with earlier versions of Word; this is because conversion will render equations as graphics and prevent electronic printing of equations, and because the default equation editor packaged with Word 2007 -- for reasons that, quite frankly, utterly baffle us -- was not designed to be compatible with MathML.
It's not baffling to me. The equation editor in MS Word sucks monkey balls. It's always sucked monkey balls. And future iterations of their crappy product will continue to suck even worse.
What is baffling to me is scientific researchers still using MS Word. What the hell are they thinking? Use LaTeX! With the amount of effort spent on getting their equations to look right with MS Word (and I have been put in a position where I had to do this when I was in grad school because no one else in my research project knew LaTeX) they could have learned LaTeX. Anyone submitting any scientific/mathematical article to a research journal anywhere in Word format needs to be severely beaten with their keyboard. God....I'd rather shove glass shards into my eyes than use Word to lay out equations.
Users of Word 2007 should also be aware that equations created with thedefault equation editor included in Microsoft Word 2007 will be unacceptable in revision, even if the file is converted to a format compatible with earlier versions of Word; this is because conversion will render equations as graphics and prevent electronic printing of equations, and because the default equation editor packaged with Word 2007 -- for reasons that, quite frankly, utterly baffle us -- was not designed to be compatible with MathML.
It's not baffling to me. The equation editor in MS Word sucks monkey balls. It's always sucked monkey balls. And future iterations of their crappy product will continue to suck even worse.
What is baffling to me is scientific researchers still using MS Word. What the hell are they thinking? Use LaTeX! With the amount of effort spent on getting their equations to look right with MS Word (and I have been put in a position where I had to do this when I was in grad school because no one else in my research project knew LaTeX) they could have learned LaTeX. Anyone submitting any scientific/mathematical article to a research journal anywhere in Word format needs to be severely beaten with their keyboard. God....I'd rather shove glass shards into my eyes than use Word to lay out equations.
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Date: 2007-06-07 10:55 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2007-06-08 03:39 pm (UTC)From:MS is one of the few companies I know of that releases future products which are actually worse than their prior products. They cost more, are more bloated and inefficient, and accomplish just as much or less than the prior release. Well - I guess some American car companies have been known to do the same thing.
I think in a year or so I'm just going to jump ship and go to linux completely or get a Mac. Linux has gotten really user-friendly over the past few years...